A very light feather, that gives Songbird a different look
Description
This feather changes both colors and layout of Songbird. The
colors are different tints of white and a small bit of greenish
colors (imagine a Goose in it :-) ). The layout is changed, so that
the play/pause buttons are now at the bottom.
The miniplayer was left about untouched (only made white as
well).
oh yea, please rate this addon :-)
======== Version History ========
0.6 adds support for 0.6, the only change I did was remove the
“select mediaviews” button.
0.5.5.1 finally adds support for 0.5 :-).
0.5.5 (2; no version change), this is merely a reuploaded 0.5.5,
maxversion set back to 0.4 (as it crashes on 0.5 for the
moment)
0.5.5 should pretty much be the last version (I think it is done).
I have made better use of screen space in full screen mode, made
unused tabs white and made some things better in the download part.
Last thing I did was add some icons back, which had been removed
since the beginning.
0.5.4 makes some things better. Most importantly it adds a resizer
to the play buttons at the bottom, so you can save yourself some
screen space. The second thing is that I have improved some
coloring, which I had messed up a little in 0.5.3.
0.5.3 makes display panes look nicer (check screenshot) and gives
icons some color
0.5.2 adds support for 0.4 and drops support for 0.3. Some small
changes were made as well
0.5.1 changes tabs and changes darkest color to something lighter
(as per Pr1me’s suggestion)
0.5.0.1 fixes 3 bugs
0.5.0 was the initial release of this feather.
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Super cool! FYI - Mac version is missing the native-looking window buttons.
Nice, I like you 'broke' the default layout and build a new one. I prefer the default one, but I think it is a cool try. Maybe you could lighten the darker selected bar. 0.5 Preview: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/9994/goosewi5.jpg
Very nice. A little to bright colour-wise for me, but I love how you've moved everything around. I'll be looking into the code for sure, and I might just make a version of Goose myself :) Maybe a WMP skin when I figure out some overlay stuff.
Love it! Nice XUL hacking. =)
Two thumbs up man, can wait to see a dark skin like or something color full keep up the good work.
It's a great feather but can you move the shuffle and repeat buttons from behind the previous button?
Hey there, that shouldn't be happening :-). Are you using the "Pause/Play/Stop Buttons" addon? Unfortunately it doesn't go with that extension well. I will see if there is a way to fix that, but I am afraid that with the way my feather works that isn't possible... If you are interested I can give you a way to change the value yourself, so that it will work again.
I am using the Pause/Play/Stop Buttons addon and I would definitely be interested in changing the value on my own. Thanks for the help.
Ok, then. I have looked into it now. The easiest way is to add a file that makes it work. First, you must look up your profile folder. That should be here; C:Documents and Settings[User]Application DataSongbirdProfiles[randomcode].default. In this folder you have to add a folder named "chrome". Into that you add a file named "userChrome.css". In userChrome.css you add the following lines: #shuffle_repeat { width: 300px !important; } #volume_bigger_box { width: 562px !important; } When you restart, it should be working. If you can't get it working, simply reply and I will give some more info. btw, for some reason the library seems to get some white space at top and bottom with that addon installed. To fix that you can add a "userContent.css" file to the "chrome" folder you have made. If you add the line; #sb-library-page > label, #sb-playlist > label { margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px !important; } it should be working fine again. This may however mess up other feathers/layouts...
First off, i love the color scheme and the clean back to basics layout. There is one little thing that irritates me tho and thats the play/pause buttons at the bottom of the screen. I always find myself having to search for these whenever i want to use them, id much rather if you made a second release with the buttons at the top. Other than that, awesome. Its a nice break from all the black vistaish themes.
Thanks for the comment :-). I can see that you don’t like the layout I made, as everyone has its personal favourite. I don’t intend to release a second version, using the default layout, though. You could fairly easily turn the default layout on yourself, but that probably will give a rather strange result, as I haven’t made sure it looks good in the default layout.
Too white. But I don’t care about that as much as I care for the Play controls. I would like to be able to move it to the top.
I second the play controls on top motion. this is the only reason keeping me from using this feather.
thanks,
Can you update your feather to work with Songbird 0.5pre ?
It isn’t really hard to update it for 0.5pre. The problem is that due to significant layout differences between 04 and 0.5pre this feather can only run on 1 and crash on the other. You can fairly simply update your own version however, so that it works fine on 0.5pre. Checkout the following bug on Bugzilla and replace the layout bundled for 0.4 with the one attached in the bug. That should make it work. http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7184
this is a great skin, the only thing i dont like about it is that you cant click on the song name, in case you want to select the song in the library…
but besides that this skin is great, it looks amazing and is very functional
Pino, you can upload your 0.5 version here and the site will continue to give your 0.4 version to people who install through 0.4 Songbird.
Pino, in order to do this, all you need to do is wrap the text elements in an <sb-curtrack-box> element:
http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/browser/trunk/app/content/bindings/playerControls.xml#L1759
That makes any text clickable to launch the “find current track” functionality.
We anticipated this request:
“Hey, wow, that was hard to implement, how the hell are developers going to be able to do that in their feathers?” :)
thanks! even though im not pino…hopefully he makes that addition
Hey joebcc and mig (thanks for comment!), I intentionally disabled the click feature. With the song progress on the same spot, I felt I could disable this rather useless function. It seems people actually use it though, so I would like to find a solution to get both working, but don’t really know how. You could adjust the mainplayer.xul file locally. I simply changed curtrack-box into curtrack-box2; if you change that back, it will function again (but you can’t really change the song progress meter any more). If you have a suggestion how I could combine both, I would love to hear!
oh ok…not sure if this could work, but maybe you could make it so like, the top half of the bar adjusts the meter, and the bottom half clciks the song?..or maybe a little bar/button that you can click to go to the song above or below the song bar? or a button on the back/forward/refresh area...i havent ever programmed a skin or anything, so i wouldnt really know if you can do that..but thanks for looking into it
First off, good work!
Secondly, is there a way to group the song progress meter along with the Play/Pause-control buttons? At the moment, the progress meter is at the top, just below the window main menu bar. Would be nice to have the progress-meter and play controls on the bottom.
Hey, this is really sharp! Much easier on the eyes (go contrast!) than more popular dark themes. But my gf doesn’t like it, all because it’s monochrome. Can I suggest you offer variations of this theme tinted in different colors (a light tint, mind you. Keep the feel of the same.) Yellow, pink, green, yadda yadda.
5 Stars!
Great job. It's interesting that you changed the place for the play/pause, etc. buttons :)
k guay
5 stars. Fantastic skin, even without the creative layout. Mind if i base a skin off of this?
Hey @LIB53: Thank you :-). The feather is GPL so you are free to, as long as the thing you make becomes GPL as well. So sure, go ahead! I am interested to see what you can do with it...
I was going to make a Windows Media Player 11 clone (I'm surprised there hasn't been a few already), but school starts for me tomorrow, so i won't get around to making it.
Quick question: how did give your skin that little Goose icon?